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To: saint
I've only taken the challenge to study Preterism in the last couple of months, but reading the scripture from the perspective of the immediate audience it was written to sure clears away a LOT of presuppositions we bring to it today.

The Bible has taken on a clarity I have never known before in the preterist view.
The truth will do that to you. :o)
I will add you to my posts.
Also see www.1newjerusalemministries.com The board there is an awesome resource!
7 posted on 11/03/2002 5:48:37 PM PST by nate4one
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To: nate4one

The preterist view brings clarity, you say? Well, I have a few questions for you:
1. When Jesus ascended into Heaven, the angels told the apostles that Jesus would come again in like manner as they saw Him go into Heaven. “He ascended into Heaven in a physical body; He will come again in a physical body,” is basically the point the angels were making. Did Jesus come again in a physical body in A.D. 70?
2. The Bible says that the present heavens and earth will be dissolved, and then God will create new heavens and a new earth (II Peter 3:10-13). If we are in the new heavens and new earth now, as you say we are, when did the old heavens and earth dissolve?
3. Was Nero the Antichrist, in your view? If so, when was he thrown into the lake of fire? And who was the False Prophet, if Nero was the Antichrist? When was the False Prophet thrown into the lake of fire?
4. If the resurrection of the dead that is prophesied in the Bible has already happened, what about the people who have died since A.D. 70? What happened to them? And what will happen to people who die tomorrow, etc.?
5. If the final judgment has already happened, will everyone who has lived since A.D. 70 not be judged?
6. How can preterism offer any hope for Christians, if the resurrection of the dead and the final judgment have already happened?


8 posted on 11/22/2008 12:52:19 AM PST by kevinw
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